Thrilling and suspenseful!!!!
Reset is one of the best Chinese drama that I have watched.Based on a time loop concept,this drama is told in an engaging manner.A college going student Li Shi Qing, accidentally falls into a time loop and with the help of a copassenger Xiao He Yun on the bus who also falls into the time loop,tries to find a way to break the loop and also uncover the hidden mystery and mastermind behind it.
Zhao Jinmai's acting is perfect and on point.The way she portrays intensity,tension,anxiety,despair, determination to find the truth and all the emotions were excellent.I really loved her character.
Bai Jingting as Xiao He Yun was also very good in his acting.
I liked the way the mysteries were unfolded in the loop following the leads from the previous loop they had fallen into and also eliminating the suspects one by one in each round of loop.
I also liked the way there was a development in both the characters of the main leads and the relationship between them.
Also,the analysis of each suspect and their backgrounds,and all the other details were perfectly written without any flaws.
I would highly and definitely recommend this edge on seat thriller drama It is a worth watching drama in suspense category.
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Best TIMELOOPS Drama
What a journey to watch this...??The problem with Timeloops is the fear of boredom due to repetition.
What's more, this is a drama with 14 episodes, not a movie.
However, no.
One repeating day turns out to have different experiences and even sideplot themes. Even with a different tone of atmosphere.
Goodjob who wrote and produced this drama.
10/10 for the experience.
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Same old thing in terms of timing and motive but divergent encounters and experiences every cycle
Warning: Minimal spoilers ahead but still safe to read before watching the drama.I'm late to the party but man this was a ride! If you haven't seen this drama yet, do it now! This is one of the rare dramas out there that will treat you to a balance slice of its genre coverages. I accidentally clicked an account here in dramalist with over a 100 reviews done. I stumbled upon their "Reset" review. I was intrigued so I checked it out and binge watched for a day straight. Now, I officially caught a vibe. A little paranoid post-binge watching. The ringtone isn't exactly horror but hearing it haunts me and gives me so much goosebumps. The plot is so interesting. No boring parts. Every character mattered. It gets better as episode goes by. Bunch of takeaways for you to bring as you venture life in the long run. OST sounds good enough. Required emotions were nailed by the actors. I'd say "MASTERPIECE". Once you're in, you're legit in. They'll make you starve for more details about their findings and other possibilities. Eventually, you'll find yourself invested in the show.
All cast members are new to me. I personally don't get enticed by C-dramas as they're usually full of cliché. But this one is different. The characters and the story itself got me hooked. I love how the female lead and, eventually the male lead, felt a sense of responsibility to stop the loop. Most likely because their personal lives are also affected. The way they solved the mystery - and the investigation they did will truly entice the viewers to participate and create their own theories. There'll be times wherein letting out a scream or sigh is required. You might also feel hopeless at times, but hey don't worry, you can just anticipate the next cycle if there's more! LOL. Jokes aside, the slow paced romance was sprinkled around just the right amount. It wasn't draggy and cheesy. The way the police officers do their job. The brilliant interrogation that will exhaust the hell of weirdos who try to explain some sci-fi to dead serious cops. After watching this, I'm eager to check more C-dramas. As well as follow the careers of the main leads and some supporting acts. We'll see if they can successfully lock me into their world.
Anyways, don't waste no time reading for more reviews. It's just 40 minutes long per episode with an additional 10 minutes for the finale but nobody's complaining. This is worth your time. A very unique story that comes with a great effort in production. Realistic blood color though a little extra explosion effect. But for real, go now, grab some popcorn, and enjoy the ride!
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Amazing plot BUT....
Disclaimer: I do not usually watch chinese dramas and I must have seen about 3 out of over 400dramas I'd completed so I am writing this as a complete ignoramus as far as the c-dramas usual tropes are concerned!Reset comes highly recommended so I decided to give it a go.
I am a sucker for a good time travel/time slip/time loop story which are notoriously difficult to write without plotholes or illogical events!
No such problem here! They managed to write a believable plot, create complex characters, introduce a strong and smart FL, present beautiful songs (mostly in english! Why is that?).
What we have here is "Groundhog Day" on a bus where two people get stuck inside a time loop and must find out who the culprit is, why is he/she commiting a crime and stop him/her without casualties! It is just a nailbiting rollercoaster ride of a plot!
BUT I wish another country had made this drama which had been completely ruined, IN MY EYES, by chinese official propaganda!
I come from a former socialist country and I can recognize brainwashing when I see it! And I had been brainwashed in my childhood! Here, I could see the same slogans on the walls, the same fidelity to state and party proclaimed all over the place, the same, selfless people fighting for the greater good of the society! And of course: the police, here to protect everyone but you have to tell the truth they want to here, police commissioners thoughtfully looking at slogans on the wall for inspiration, all present surveillance making sure everyone understands that they can run but they cannot hide anywhere! Unbearable!
There are CCTV in Korea and the police dramas use them a lot but not to this extent!
Anyway this is a great drama if you can look past propaganda! I could not and therefore my note is rather low!
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Unique cdrama with interesting plot
I am on ep 5 and i just want to say this drama is amazing. First of all the acting I'm not familiar with the leads but they are doing an amazing job at portraying emotion.Right from the first few minutes the drama starts with suspense and introduces you to the plot in the first episode it contains flashbacks that add to the plot rather than take away from it.
I cant say much since I've only watched 5 episodes but I highly recommend it it will keep you at the edge of your seat and feels very realistic despite the plot being sci fi related
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Masterful storytelling that doesn't fool around and delivers the punch straight to your face.
I don't usually write reviews until I've finished the entire thing, but with this one I'm only 4 eps in but I'm thoroughly impressed and couldn't stop myself from saying something.Incredibly realistic and relatable. Characters behave exactly how a real person would, if they encounter a situation like this, and the show doesn't shy away from showing us each an every thought process they go through which is very organic instead of having leads who are either super smart or super stupid.
However, this is exactly what makes the show difficult to watch, at least for me. Not because it's particularly gory or thriller-y but because IT'S TOO REAL! It made me feel second hand stress and panic because the characters were doing exactly what I would do and.... holy moly the impact it causes.
Therefore I would say you'll need some guts to watch this, unless you aren't particularly sensitive to that sort of thing. Me? I had to pause like every 15 mins because I was anxious watching the characters' desperation. Also the police being strict and serious with their job... and there can be very few nightmarish things to a civilian than finding yourself on the wrong side of the Police, and them not believing a word you are saying. It's no joke.
Shudders.
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interesting concept, good execution, but strange premise
This drama is a good take on the Groundhog Day concept, which reminds me a lot of the series "The Long Night". The reason is both of these are well acted, well packaged short dramas with a tendency to glorify the police force. And both of them have the same weakness: as suspense/ plot driven dramas, the 'big reveal' is a bit of a letdown therefore making the rewatch value limited.To the screenwriter's credit, the short number of episodes are not repetitive despite returning again and again to the scene of the crime. The first couple of times the FL Liu Qingshi and ML He Yun are just trying to figure things out and they do so in a mostly logical manner. However after that they begin to explore the backstories of the people on the bus and this brings some diversity into the story. Everyone is well acted particularly Tao Yinghong as the spot on intense asian mom and our very natural and convincing FL. Bai Jingling as the ML is fine but I think his best role is still later in Destinied.
Weaknesses: I did feel that some of the side stories drag on, such as the anime boy Lu Di and the watermelon man Ma Guoqiang. But the biggest weakness is similar to the Long Night. The whole drama works to make the cast look like noble and self sacrificing people especially the policemen. But in order to do this they make the villain's motives quite unnatural. In this case, they make the villains very mentally ill. The other obvious drawback is that a lack of shortcomings in the lead characters makes them feel underdeveloped. Combined with the fact that this is a mystery drama, this means the whole thing can become viral a la Squid Game (which it did, in China at least) but then not be worth a rewatch.
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This is fine
It's a fine drama. I was emotionally involved in the story from the beginning almost to the end. The tense moments were tense, the protagonists were likable, and the attention to detail was high. However, near the end it slipped a bit.Here's why.
I think the choice to focus on the motives of antagonists and the related case was bad. First, because their motives and the case were predictable, and they themselves weren't likable or sympathetic people like narrative wants us to feel. Second, because it dragged on too long, the last 2-3 episodes are about that rather then the loop and how to break it.
I also think that portrayal of police was too idealistic, all police officers were dedicated, kind, willing to risk their lives, zealous in their devotion and the phrase "trust the police" was told multiple times, then we were shown on multiple occasions that trusting the police is always the best idea. It felt like propaganda.
The ending "slideshow" showing the endings of various passengers was idealistic too, like what kinda guy would be happy to see his estranged former criminal father suddenly show up at work with a bunch of dirty watermelons? And the boomer parents cosplaying for the cat guy, I just laughed at that.
Also, speaking of the cat guy. He "rescues" cats from the street by putting them in cages and locking them in his small room in darkness. Tbh death is probably better then such rescue.
And the romance between main characters, literally zero chemistry.
Finally, the reason why time loop happened wasn't explained.
So I can't rate it higher then 8/10. There are much better time travel and time loop works of fiction around.
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可以看一遍的剧，后面有些拖沓。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。 Was this review helpful to you?
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Un thriller incroyable !
L'année 2022 se poursuit avec un drama chinois époustouflant dont il serait vraiment vraiment vraiment dommage de passer à côté!!!! Sous-titré en français sur Viki, vous n'aurez plus de raison et d'excuse valable si vous passez à côté de cette perle! Je vous conseille vivement de prévoir de le visionner en une seule fois , un peu comme un long métrage...Afin d'éviter tout spoil malvenu, je n'écrirai que peu sur l'histoire. Ce dont vous avez juste besoin de savoir tient en une seule et unique phrase : Li Shi Qing et Xiao He Yun se retrouvent piégés à l'intérieure d'une boucle temporelle les obligeant à revivre l'explosion d'un bus. Comme écrit plus haut, j'éviterai d'en dire plus, chaque mot pouvant vous donner des indices sur le déroulé du scénario, ce qui serait vraiment dommage.
Dès les premières images, nous sommes propulsés directement au coeur de l'action. Un drama d'action avec peu de temps mort?
Que nenni.
Un drama incroyablement géré d'une main de maître alternant une action haletante à des scènes émouvantes en passant par une narration subtile impliquant presque tous les personnages du drama. Il n'y a pas de temps mort. Pas de passage ennuyant. Pas de flottement hasardeux. Le talent de la scénariste est de nous avoir impliqué, et ce dès le début, dans cette angoisse, cette tension qui ne nous lâcheront pas jusqu'au dernier épisode. Un marathon époustouflant.
Il faut savoir que le drama est un roman de Qi Dao Jun (祈祷君) intitulé "Kai Duan" (开端). Qi Dao Jun a d'ailleurs contribué au script, aidée en cela par Lao Sun, Qiu Yujie et Huang Kaiwen. L'auteur a travaillé minutieusement, jour après jour sur le scénario, prêtant une attention absolue à tous les détails visant à mener un presque sans faute au scénario. Le tournage a été deux fois plus long que ce qu'on voit habituellement pour un drama, 62 jours pour 15 épisodes, ce qui est ici un gage de qualité. Le réalisateur, loin d'être un novice, n'est autre que celui en charge de la photographie de "Nirvana in Fire". L'équipe de production a notamment été au commande de hit comme "Nirvana in Fire" ou "Battle of Changsha". Le producteur, Hou Hong Liang, n'est autre que celui qui a produit "Nirvana in Fire" mais aussi "Love me if you dare" ou "Battle of Changsa". Autrement dit, avec une telle équipe, peu de chance de voir un truc pourri... Peu d'épisode, un format inhabituel qui aura accumulé depuis sa diffusion 2,1 milliards de vue sur la plateforme Tencent, rien qu'en Asie, faisant de "Reset" le drama ayant eu le plus d'audience pour l'année 2022, du moins en ce début d'année. A titre de comparaison, "Squid Game's" sur Netflix a totalisé 1,6 milliards de vue dans 90 pays...
Oui, me direz-vous, le nombre de vue n'est pas une garantie de qualité n'est ce pas. "Reset" est quant à lui un drama affublé d'un scénario complexe et de personnages charismatiques et attachants, faisant de lui indiscutablement, à mes yeux, d'un "must to watch".
Contrairement au livre, les personnages ont une importance qui non seulement font avancer l'histoire mais donne cette raison aux protagonistes de vouloir retourner dans cette boucle afin de les sauver d'une mort certaine. Loin d'être juste une décoration à l'ensemble du scénario, les personnages secondaires nous touchent de par leur passé et de leur trait de caractères tels que la dame aux médicaments ou l'homme aux écouteurs. Peu présentés et silencieux, comme l'homme aux écouteurs, ils participent activement le moment venu, à la montée d'adrénaline qui nous parlent. L'émotion nous bouleverse lorsque s'en vient à l'écran l'homme aux pastèque, l'homme à la valise, le chauffeur du bus, le streameur, la dame au faitout ou bien encore l'homme aux chats.....des personnages d'une telle simplicité mais avec un passé qui trouve étrangement écho en nous. Le spectateur est impliqué violemment dans ce sauvetage et nous nous surprenons à plusieurs reprise à retenir notre souffle, priant de toute nos forces que le bus n'explose pas pour la énième fois.
La force de ce drama tient aussi dans la qualité de l'écriture des protagonistes.
Li Shi Qing et Xiao He Yun n'ont rien d'exceptionnels. Ni force martial, ni intelligence hors norme, ni statut, ni richesse. Des personnes comme vous ou moi. Une étudiante et un concepteur de jeux vidéos. Ainsi, si leur passé ne nous est pas détaillé, si leur famille semble inexistante, c'est pour nous souligner la simplicité, voire la banalité de leur vie. C'est donc face cette situation d'urgence et de danger que Shi Qing et He Yun vont démontrer à travers leur action et leur parole de leur extraordinaire sens de l'humanité. La sensibilité et la force de caractère de Shi Qing complète à la perfection au raisonnement logique de He Yun. Leur lien a le temps de se développer malgré tout, par petite touche subtile et naturelle. La conclusion de leur relation n'en était que plus satisfaisante.
Mais le protagoniste qui nous aura le plus bluffé est sans conteste l'inspecteur Zhang Cheng ! Interprété avec un talent fou par Liu Yi Jun, la dimension rationnelle et humaine est aussi apportée par ce personnage. Son intelligence aiguë et son sens incroyable de l'observation, tenant ici pourtant d'un niveau élevé, n'est rien comparé à son humanité époustouflante et à la sagesse de ses mots. Si tous les officiers de police pouvait n'avoir qu'un centième de son esprit, le monde irait tellement mieux.
Liu Yi Jun est un acteur chevronné qu'on a pu voir dans "Nirvana in Fire" ou "Legend of Fu Yao" par exemple.
Bai Jing Ting, que nous avons récemment vu dans "Ping Pong Life" ou "You are my Hero" est un acteur qui progresse sûrement depuis 2014 et son rôle ici confirme son jeu talentueux. J'ai apprécié la logique de He Yun et le cheminement de son analyse. De premier abord mitigé et pris entre sa conscience et sa volonté de survivre, le personnage évolue irrémédiablement et permet ainsi un contrepoids à la sensibilité exacerbé et naïveté de Shi Qin, nous délivrant de fait un magnifique duo d'amitié et de romance naturelle et solide.
Zhao Jin Mai, adorable dans "A little thing called first love", est loin d'être une débutante, ayant déjà à son actif de nombreux drama, et nous démontre aussi toute la subtilité de son personnage, ses réflexions humaines et au final sa volonté de vouloir sauver avant d'être sauvée.
L'équilibre entre le scénario de l'explosion ainsi que la narration des événements permettent de suivre sans temps mort le drama. Le suspense est distillé de façon intelligente et est maintenu jusqu'à la vérité. Je ne suis pas une experte dans ce domaine, mais j'ose écrire que l'enchaînement logique a été exploitée de manière ingénieuse, nous obligeant à passer d'épisode en épisode, non seulement afin de savoir qui est le coupable. Mais aussi et surtout, car nous étions impliqués émotionnellement.
Un des meilleurs "thriller émotionnel" que j'ai pu voir, que cela US ou coréen ou whatever! A NE PAS LOUPER ! sous aucun prétexte !!
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Um marco, uma experiência.
Desde que eu terminei Reset, não tenho palavras para descrever o que foi tudo aquilo. Eu fico hesitando, indo e vindo aqui para escrever a review e é como se a mesma carga elétrica que se espalhou pelo meu corpo durante os episódios se espalhasse de novo e de novo, levando todo o meu foco. Esse drama é simplesmente eletrizante.Emocionante na medida certa, lindo, sensível e com cenas de ação incríveis. A evolução da tensão acompanha o expectador e não o abandona, forçando-o a investigar junto aos protagonistas, um suspense tão bem feito que te deixa alerta e não angustiado.
Apesar de curto, a história e o espaço entre os loops foram extremamente bem aproveitados, deixo todos os meus elogios à equipe de direção e edição.
Mais do que tudo, as atuações são o principal destaque do drama, são tão imersivas que quando percebi estava chorando com o final, senti como se fosse parte de cada núcleo e compreendi silenciosamente as dores de cada personagem.
Definitivamente, um forte e quase que imbatível concorrente à melhor do ano. Recomendo de olhos fechados.
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